Sentences with phrase «circumscribed area»

But somehow while rats and mice enjoy a reputation for staying within a fairly circumscribed area and making their way back home with alacrity, once hamsters depart slightly from their familiar surroundings they inevitably become distracted and wander aimlessly.

When you consider that many council children's departments now have a much smaller role to play in overseeing school improvement, they should be able to focus nearly all their attention on this one important, circumscribed area.

Philosopher Michel Foucault calls such locales heterotopias — circumscribed areas that deviate from customary rules and behaviors.

Not exact matches

If we are to find the area of a circle, we can circumscribe it with regular polygons with indefinitely increasing numbers of sides.

But it also said that leaving the EU could give the UK greater flexibility — albeit at the cost of greater complexity - if it chose to vary the tax system, particularly in the area of Value Added Tax (VAT) which is currently heavily circumscribed by EU directives.

But Randi Spivak, director of public lands for the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity in Tuscon, Arizona, said that by circumscribing the highest level of protection only to certain areas, the administration is displaying «more political science than biological science.»

In the table on the left page, the square that appears repeatedly denotes 4 / pi, or the ratio of the area of a square to the area of the circumscribed circle.

WASHINGTON — In a carefully circumscribed venture into the sensitive area of book banning in public schools, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this summer that First Amendment guarantees limit the power of school boards to remove books from school libraries.

Should the lawyer for the lender be carefully circumscribing the terms of the opinion that can be given, in light of what is known about the rents and / or the lawyer's personal comfort with this area of the law?

The UK's exit from the EU will provide the devolved legislatures with the freedom to legislate in devolved areas that are currently circumscribed by EU law.

Having a clear focus makes it possible to do interpretive work in a relatively short time because the therapist only addresses the circumscribed problem area.

The «democratic spotlight» that this would provide is especially important in an area as complex and sensitive as Indigenous affairs, and it is unrealistic to think that all wisdom can rest in the necessarily somewhat circumscribed world of Ministers and senior bureaucrats who have limited knowledge or experience in Indigenous affairs.